desktop items not displaying on desktop

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desktop items not displaying on desktop

Hello. The other day I was using AirPlay and when I closed it and came back to my desktop, none of my desktop items where displayed. I can get to my desktop folder and items through Finder, but I cant figure out how to get them to display on my desktop. It is also only my profile that this has happened to. All of the other profiles on the computer are not affected.

Any thoughts? I'm sure it's something simple that I haven't thought of.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Nov 8, 2015 8:24 AM

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Linc Davis

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Nov 8, 2015 11:09 AM in response to cnall1

Have you installed something called "PathFinder?"

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Eric Root

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Nov 8, 2015 2:49 PM in response to cnall1

Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.desktop.plist. Move the .plists to your desktop.

Re-launch Finder by restarting the computer and test. If it works okay, delete the plists from the desktop.

If the same, return the .plists to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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